Sahih Ibn Hibban 6285
✧ From his character ﷺ and his stories
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أَخْبَرَنَا السِّخْتِيَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يُوسُفَ بْنِ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْبَرَاءَ يَقُولُ
«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ وَجْهًا وَأَحْسَنَهُمْ خَلْقًا وَخُلُقًا لَيْسَ بِالطَّوِيلِ الذَّاهِبِ وَلَا بِالْقَصِيرِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Sikhtiyānī
- Abū Kurayb
- Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
- Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf b. Abū Isḥāq
- his father
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Barāʾ
✧ "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had the most beautiful face of all people, and the finest physique and character. He was neither tall and lanky nor short."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3548Sahih Muslim 2347aJami' at-Tirmidhi 3623Muwatta' Malik 49-1
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيسمعت
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 157 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 198 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يُوسُفَ بْنِ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَصدوق يهمعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), criticized for Shīʿismd. al-Bukhārī said: 204 AH, Abū Dāwūd and others said: 205 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍصدوق تكلم فيه للتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 305 AHالسَّخْتِيَانِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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